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A Southern Sudanese voter casts her ballot at a local polling station on the outskirts of Juba on the first day of a week-long independence referendum expected to lead to the partition of Africa's largest nation and the creation of the world's 193rd UN member state.

A Southern Sudanese voter casts her ballot at a local polling station on the outskirts of Juba on the first day of a week-long independence referendum expected to lead to the partition of Africa's largest nation and the creation of the world's 193rd UN member state.